decision for the firm's innovation. Companies must be conscious that while suppliers and customers' cooperation are relevant … aims to understand how companies can strength their contexts of cooperation in order to innovate. Design … innovation efficiency process. The influence of the potential and realized absorptive capacity on new products is significant and …

Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate …. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by …' cooperation and R&D investment preferences. While the focus of this paper is limited to a static scenario, where the cognitive …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of Knowledge Management (KM) for the innovation success of firms. It … recombination of internal and external knowledge assets. To analyse the embedding of KM in a firm's internal system of innovation we …. Using data on KM and innovation success of 351 German firms of the manufacturing sector and knowledge-intensive services …

venture, the firms do not necessary choose the highest degree of cooperation available. …

focus is on knowledge management practices implemented to increase collaboration between actors within a firm on innovation … innovation strategy targeted at consumers and continuous R&D activities is positively related to KM usage. In addition, more …

facilities that include external sources of information into the innovation process. This trend towards an open innovation … in external R&D allow fast adaptations within the innovation process in case of changing market trends or radical … innovations. Furthermore, opening up the innovation process simplifies an integration of required know-how from another industry …

Firms compete increasingly in an open innovation environment. Search strategies for external knowledge become therefore … are built through internal or external R&D activities) and the munificence of its innovation environment. We test these … its breadth. Moreover, we find that scarce innovation environments favor deep search strategies while breadth is more …

team size is shown: more developers may increase the total profit of an innovation (before paying the involved people) but … Faktoren spielen eine Rolle, besonders wichtig sind die Kosten des einzelnen, die ihm bei der Teilnahme am Wissenstransfer … vollständiger Wissenstransfer bei hohen individuellen Kosten nicht unbedingt gewinnmaximierend für das Unternehmen ist. Diese …